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            <div id="ConfluenceContent"><h1 id="datevalidator-Description">Description</h1>

<p>Field Validator that checks if the date supplied is within a specific range.</p>

<p><b>NOTE:</b> If no date converter is specified, XWorkBasicConverter will kick
in to do the date conversion, which by default using the <code>Date.SHORT</code> format using
the a problematically specified locale else falling back to the system
default locale.</p>



<h1 id="datevalidator-Parameters">Parameters</h1>
<p></p><ul><li>fieldName - The field name this validator is validating. Required if using Plain-Validator Syntax otherwise not required</li><li>min - the min date range. If not specified will not be checked.</li><li>max - the max date range. If not specified will not be checked.</li><li>parse - if set to true, minExpression and maxExpression will be evaluated to find min/max</li><li>minExpression - expression to calculate the minimum value (if none is specified, it will not be checked) </li><li>maxExpression - expression to calculate the maximum value (if none is specified, it will not be checked) </li></ul>

<p>You can either use the min / max value or minExpression / maxExpression (when parse is set to true) -
using expression can be slightly slower, see the example below.</p>

<div class="confluence-information-macro confluence-information-macro-warning"><p class="title">Warning</p><span class="aui-icon aui-icon-small aui-iconfont-error confluence-information-macro-icon"></span><div class="confluence-information-macro-body">
<p>Do not use ${minExpression} and ${maxExpression} as an expression as this will turn into infinitive loop!</p></div></div>

<h1 id="datevalidator-Examples">Examples</h1>
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    &lt;!-- Plain Validator syntax --&gt;
    &lt;validator type=&quot;date&quot;&gt;
        &lt;param name=&quot;fieldName&quot;&gt;birthday&lt;/param&gt;
        &lt;param name=&quot;min&quot;&gt;01/01/1990&lt;/param&gt;
        &lt;param name=&quot;max&quot;&gt;01/01/2000&lt;/param&gt;
        &lt;message&gt;Birthday must be within ${min} and ${max}&lt;/message&gt;
    &lt;/validator&gt;

    &lt;!-- Field Validator Syntax --&gt;
    &lt;field name=&quot;birthday&quot;&gt;
        &lt;field-validator type=&quot;date&quot;&gt;
     	   &lt;param name=&quot;min&quot;&gt;01/01/1990&lt;/param&gt;
            &lt;param name=&quot;max&quot;&gt;01/01/2000&lt;/param&gt;
            &lt;message&gt;Birthday must be within ${min} and ${max}&lt;/message&gt;
    	   &lt;/field&gt;
    &lt;/field&gt;

    &lt;!-- Field Validator Syntax with expression --&gt;
    &lt;field name=&quot;birthday&quot;&gt;
        &lt;field-validator type=&quot;date&quot;&gt;
            &lt;param name=&quot;minExpression&quot;&gt;${minValue}&lt;/param&gt; &lt;!-- will be evaluated as: Date getMinValue() --&gt;
            &lt;param name=&quot;maxExpression&quot;&gt;${maxValue}&lt;/param&gt; &lt;!-- will be evaluated as: Date getMaxValue() --&gt;
            &lt;message&gt;Age needs to be between ${min} and ${max}&lt;/message&gt;
        &lt;/field-validator&gt;
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